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The Aggregate Labour Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

Albrecht, James; den Berg, Gerard J van; Vroman, Susan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997--2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labour market outcomes. This is...

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Contractual Dualism, Market Power and Informality

Basu, Arnab K; Chau, Nancy H; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Two stylized representations are often found in the academic and policy literature on informality and formality in …

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Informality: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses

Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

A stylized prediction of the development economics discourse is that informality will disappear with development. And … yet in the last twenty years conventional measures of informality, far from declining, have either remained stagnant or … have actually increased. What exactly is informality and what are its magnitudes and trends? What are the causes of …

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Group versus Individual Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines

Giné, Xavier; Karlan, Dean S. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Group liability is often portrayed as the key innovation that led to the explosion of the microcredit movement, which started with the Grameen Bank in the 1970s and continues on today with hundreds of institutions around the world. Group lending claims to improve repayment rates and lower...

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Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment

Crépon, Bruno; Duflo, Esther; Gurgand, Marc; Rathelot, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper reports the results from a randomized experiment designed to evaluate the direct and indirect (displacement) impacts of job placement assistance on the labor market outcomes of young, educated job seekers in France. We use a two-step design. In the first step, the proportions of job...

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A Contribution to Unemployment Dynamics

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper views movements in unemployment as the result of the interaction between: (a) lags in labour market decisions; and (b) labour market shocks with temporary and permanent components. Two features of unemployment dynamics are examined: (i) `unemployment persistence', arising when...

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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?

Gautier, Pieter A; Moraga-González, José-Luis; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....

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Evaluating Unemployment Policies: What do the Underlying Theories Tell Us?

Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The paper surveys unemployment policies for advanced market economies and evaluates them by examining the predictions of the underlying macroeconomic theories. The basic idea is that, for the most part, different unemployment policy prescriptions rest on different macroeconomic theories, and our...

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Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben

Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben seperates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the...

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Persistence and the German Unemployment Problem: Empirical Evidence on German Labour Market Flows

Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Using a retrospective monthly calendarium of individuals' major economic activities, this paper characterizes the monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities between the states of employment, unemployment, and out-of-the-labor- force for the German labor...

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